Lenin — #2838 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Lenin

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,679 babies named Lenin between 1925 and 2024, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Lenin currently holds the #2838 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 83 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lenin performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 527 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lenin shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 346 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lenin in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lenin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,679 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.